Editing Resistance to interrogation (section)

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'''Resistance to interrogation''', '''RTI''' or '''R2I''' is a type of military training to soldiers to prepare them, after capture by the enemy, to resist [[interrogation]] techniques such as [[humiliation]] and [[torture]].

The trainees undergo practices such as [[hooding|hood]]ing, [[sleep deprivation]], time disorientation, prolonged [[nakedness]], sexual humiliation and deprivation of warmth, water and food. Many of these techniques are against international law if used in interrogations.<ref>Survival: Techniques From The Official Training Manuals Of The World's Elite Military Corps, Editor: Len Cacutt. Aerospace Publishing Ltd 1988. Chapter Four If...., Under Interrogation, p. 78, {{ISBN|9780715392829}}</ref>

In such interrogation sessions, the subjects must maintain dead silence regardless of the practice being inflicted on them except when asked for one or more pieces of information that are in accordance with 
Article 17 of the [[Third Geneva Convention]]. Under that protocol four pieces of information have to be provided whenever requested: name, rank, serial number and date of birth. Both the subjects and the practitioner have a right to insist on a return to unit every hour.

Standard RTI for most special military branches of American and European governments covers both tortures that are condemned by the [[United Nations]] and interrogation techniques that are considered legitimate, usually presented along a sliding scale. For instance, a soldier would be subjected to slight discomforts before being subjected to more torturous techniques.

The [[People's Liberation Army Rocket Force#Special Operations Regiment|People's Liberation Army Rocket Force Special Operations Regiment]] includes RTI in their selection.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yang |first=Yonggang |last2=Zhang |first2=Wenping |last3=Wang |first3=Wei |date=2014-09-24 |editor-last=Song |editor-first=Kaiguo |title=第二炮兵“利刃”特种部队训练酷图 |url=http://www.81.cn/depb/2014-09/24/content_5909018_2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250330145755/http://www.81.cn/depb/2014-09/24/content_5909018_2.htm |archive-date=2025-03-30 |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Chinese Military}}</ref>

''[[The Guardian]]'' has reported that according to a former British [[special forces]] officer, the acts committed by [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] soldiers who committed [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse|torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib]] resembled the techniques used in RTI training.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1212199,00.html | location=London | title=UK forces taught torture methods | date=8 May 2004 |work=The Guardian  | first=David | last=Leigh}}</ref>